To fix the bugs introduced by the other guys using AI too much.

I have heard from people working on Metaverse that they have no clue what's going on and it's basically someone who ate an entire tray of green brownies while playing Shadowrun.

Without detailed numbers, I suspect it's economist bullshit.

This isn't about high functioning vs low functioning (which is really all Asperger's was. We realized that there were people who were able to mostly go about normal lives sometimes had the SAME executive function disorder as these people who in some cases are near catatonic - that's all Asperger's Syndrome was, HF autism.

Separate but equally, there actually seems to be different types of autism entirely - even among high functioning ASD people, you can see wildly different effects (some of which is coping and masking of course).

It's really similar to the issues currently with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetics - there's clearly multiple types of them, but they look similar enough we've grouped them the same.

In most companies, Developers and BAs are the ones using and demanding Macs now.

I mean creatives/marketing/etc already demanded Macs, but that's been the case for decades, my wife refuses to use PCs in any shape or form.

> PowerShell - ugh, probably because of lack of familiarity. It's probably fine.

This echos my assessment even if I'm much more intimately family with it. It's fine, it works for automating stupid shit on Windows servers and can configure the servers 99% of the time, but fuck if it's not a constant moving target and it seems like it was designed by someone with hardcore NIH syndrome.

If we include all our endpoints (which we would count phones) ... Apple is definitely #1 endpoint and its around 70% now. We're already discussing kicking Android off the MDM except in China (they have their own MDM and are around 90% of Android.)

Marketing/Creative uses Macs 100%. IT, at least the BA/Developer/etc types use Macs now almost exclusively. We don't really have much COTS using Windows now, it's mostly gone web-based these days. Office works fine on Macs and really I think we could kick Windows on the front end out and shift the rare stuff off to VMs. We cannot kick Windows out of the backend, tooo many COTS require Windows and AD is still basically required nigh universally for that stuff. In-house and BI are end-stage of being full cloud.

Damn I'm somewhat realizing we could finally do it ...

Nobody can really predict what will happen from here.

Most people circa 1995 wouldn't have imagined that home phones would go away. Cell phones seemed obvious at that point, but basically ALL phones everywhere AND payphones all just being poofed by 20-30 years later? Seemed impossible, but even my rice farmer FIL who really only has a single rice tractor has a cell phone and no house phone. Even had me run an electric outlet 200m so he could have electricity in the barn for a phone charger.

35+ will have seen a lot more "analog" tech that went poof and yet everyone still has a job.

F1 Students do OPT initially (at least STEM students do.)

The cool kids doing serious research do the Education excluded H1B (which has no cap.)

And of course if you are actually good, you can do O-1A.

I've always been a fan of the whole "just allow everyone with a degree" visa. That's what we do here (+ job sponsorship, but everyone needs a job, so ...)

They have intellectual property rights.

We generally have 3 kinds of people writing things where scripts make sense: Backend Developers, Sys Admins, and Devops Engineers. All three have their reasons for doing it, but generally it's FOR the Sys Admins to be able to use and edit as needed. This generally means it needs to be in "their" languages, Python, Shell, or JavaScript. We've found restricting everyone to Python works because EVERYONE can write in Python and restrict them to PyPy compatible Python.

With this, every thing runs faster than Perl and in some cases runs faster that basic C/C++ without trying too hard. If for some reason we want to GO FAST, we just run it through Shedskin and it will generally be as fast as it gets.

When you reach peak adoption OR the market is in "actual" saturation. I haven't seen either of those yet (as someone who does outside business IT consulting.)

What I have seen is that starting around Feb/March there seemed to be a lot of cooling among large enterprises that seems to have accelerated at certain types of business lines.

I assume they use it and then they stop using it. Which is what the Apollo charts showing the Census Data show pretty directly. Starting in June, the moving average began to decline.

We've seen a general decline as well at my large multi-national home away from home that unnecessarily causes me to have to walk for 15 minutes to get there after a 15 minute train ride ... It shouldn't be allowed any temp above 18.

The ship has sailed, it will just punish US companies, but hey - please do it.

We're seeing problems with AI and young hires, but the issue is less that they know how to "use it really well" but instead that at least a lot of interviewees seem to barely be able to NOT use it. AI has it's uses, but you still have to be able to write code.

Another factor at least locally is that we have a ton of ex-Microsoft, ex-Google, and similar people who are older, very skilled, and now want to work for a more stable companies. They are great even if I have to pay a little more.